American automaker General Motors (GM) is set to invest $449m to upgrade its manufacturing processes at Detroit-Hamtramck assembly and Brownstown battery assembly plants. This move is aimed at the company's next generation of electric ...
Set to the sounds of soulful electrified blues music, Kia Motors America (KMA) today hosted the global unveiling of the 2015 Soul EV at the Chicago Auto Show. Scheduled to go on sale in the third quarter of 2014, the Soul EV will be Kia's ...
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Plug-in hybrids will lead the pack among e-vehicles in the race to produce cleaner, more efficient vehicles, according to KPMG International’s 2014 Global Automotive Executive Survey. The rise of alternative powertrain technologies ...
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The Ford C-Max Solar Energi concept debuts solar power technology that allows it to harness energy from the sun to charge its battery and drive its electric motor, significantly reducing its environmental impact. The C-Max Solar Energi ...
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Ford Motor Company announced today the C-MAX Solar Energi Concept, a first-of-its-kind sun-powered vehicle with the potential to deliver the best of what a plug-in hybrid offers – without depending on the electric grid for fuel. ...
In 2002, Secretary of state Donald Rumsfeld made a statement regarding weapons of mass destruction that today is still well known. He famously parsed the evidence (or lack thereof) into "known knowns, known unknowns, and unknown unknowns." ...
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About Aircraft batteries Parts and Its Product Range: Just as car batteries are used to start the engines, such are the purpose of aircraft batteries. However, there are many more differences than similarities, as an aircraft battery is ...
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This combination of Associated Press file photos shows, left, a Cingular "Fast Forward" cradle and Motorola mobile phone in New York on Tuesday Nov. 4, 2003, and an Apple ultracompact USB Power Adapter, on Friday, Sept. 19, 2008, in New ...
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Ford announced today that Auto Start-Stop will be available on 70 percent of its North American vehicle lineup by 2017. A major part of the company's Blueprint for Sustainability, the expansion of Auto Start-Stop comes as the ...
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German auto giants Volkswagen AG, BMW and Daimler see China's future as being electric - encouraged by generous government subsidies - but that bet puts them at odds with some of their Asian rivals. While the Europeans were heralding the ...
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Volvo has completed a research project into inductive charging for electric vehicles, with a senior executive expressing the wireless technology has “great potential”. Partnering a consortium of companies, including Volvo, ...
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Chrysler Group has entered into a five-year C$18.2m ($17.40m) agreement with McMaster University to develop next-generation, electrified powertrains and powertrain components. The project will receive funding support from the Canadian ...
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Volvo Car Group has successfully completed a research project on inductive charging for cars and buses on a Volvo C30 Electric car. The results showed that technology for transferring energy through an electromagnetic field has a great ...
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Volvo has developed a method of storing energy in car body panels that could make conventional hybrid and electric vehicle batteries a thing of the past. The three-and-a-half year project –funded by the European Union and comprising ...
Swedish automobile manufacturer Volvo Car Group has developed a new concept for lightweight structural energy storage components, in a bid to enhance the use of energy for future electrified vehicles. The new component includes carbon ...
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